Bathing garment



March 21, 1933. A L ROFF 1,902,190

BATHING GARMENT Filed Dec. 10, 1951' INVENTOR ABRAHAM SLOTORO FF ATTORN EY5 Patented Mar. 21, 1933 ABRAHAMSLOTOROFF, F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK BA'rHI e GARMENT- Application filed December 10, 1931. Serial No. 580,099.

Important. objects of the present invention are, to provide a bathing garment comprising a waist having a low cutback and provided with improved means to hold the bust-covering portion of the garment snugly and securely fitted to the wearer, and to provide such a garment-having several alternative means to hold the bust-covering portion snugly and securely fitted and to render the garment convertible to vary its appearance at the back.

Other. objects of the invention will appear hereinafter.

' Intheidrawing, Fig. 1 is a rearview of the improved garment;

5 Fig. 2 a'reduced rear view of the garment upon a wearer and showing one adjustment of the garment;

Fig. 3 a view similar to Fig. 2 showing another adjustment of the garment; and

Fig. 4 a view similar to Figs. 2 and 3 showing another adjustment of the garment.

. In the present instance the garment is of a union type and comprises a body or waist Land-trunks 2disposed within the lower, skirt portion of the waist and stitched thereto around the waist line. These-parts may be separable, however. At its front and sides the waist is. formed to cover the bust of the wearer to a required degree and at the back it is low cut to define an approximate V extending from points directly beneath the arms ofthe wearer downward toa central point just above the waist line. Below the V out the waist has a belt 3 which may be either secured or detachable. Secured to or formed with the bust-covering portion are shoulder straps 4 which converge at the back of the garment and extend downward to a point below the central lowermost point of the V out.

" At their lower ends said straps are superposed and stitched to the inner side of the garment back, as at- 5. One of the straps has a button 6 stitched upon its outer face and the other strap has a buttonhole 7 to receive the button. Each strap has a button 8 stitched to its inner face at a point spaced below the aforesaid button or buttonhole. At its opposite sides the waist has two transverse tension straps or strands 9. The latter are securely stitched at one end to the inner marwearer. shoulder straps are superposed and extend gins of the V out at points spaced slightly below and back of the arms of the wearer. At their free ends the straps 9 have buttonholes lOengageable with the buttons 8 of the shoulder straps. The waist and trunks of the garment and the straps 8 and 9 are all preferably made of knitted fabric. They may be made ofother materials, however.

In one adjustment of the garment, shown in Fig. 2, theshoulder straps are unbuttoned and they converge'clear to their lower an chorage at the bottom of the V out. At opposite sides of the V out the straps 9 are folded beneath the bust-coveringiportion of the I waist and are concealed thereby.

In the adjustment of the garment shown in Fig. 3,'the buttonhole 7 of one shoulder strap is engaged with the button 6 of the other strap. Thereby the straps are held sharply converged to a point located between 70 the shoulder blades of the wearer and the straps exert a tension upon the bust-covering portion which holds it snugly fitted tothe Below their buttoned point the straight'downward to their lower anchorage. In this adjustment of'the garment also, the sidestraps 9 are folded out of sight beneath the bust-covering portion of the garment. V

Fig. 4 shows an adjustment of the garment wherein the side. tension straps 9 are employed. In this adjustment the shoulder straps are unbuttoned from each other and the straps 9 are extended rearward and the button hole of each is engaged to the button 8 of the adjacent shoulder strap. The straps then exert a rearward tension upon the bust covering portion. and hold and securely fitted.

in Fig. 3 the upper. portions of the shoulder straps are disposed near the neck of the wearer and'the' lower portions ofthe straps are disposed at the. center of theba'ck. In the adjustments shown in Figs. 2 and 4 the straps are spread apart touncoverareas of the back which were covered by the straps in their first adjustment. Also, in Figs. 2 and 3 the side tension strips are folded under to uncover areas of the back which they covered in the adjustment of Fig. 4:. Thus the entire area of the back within the V out of the waist may be evenly tanned without removing the straps from theshoulders and without releasing the bust-covering portion of the garment.

What I claim is:

1. As an article of manufacture, a bathing garment comprising a waist having a bust-covering portion and a low-cut open back, a pair of shoulder straps connected at the front to the bust-covering portion and converging downward at the back within the back opening and having their lower end portions superposed and anchored to the lower edge of the back opening, releasable fastening means carried by said straps to fasten them together at a medial point thereof at the back and hold them superposed between said point and their anchorage at the back, a pair of transverse tension strips at opposite sides of thefback opening and each anchored at one end to an inner edge margin of the back opening approximately at the bust level and being foldable to concealed positions beneath the bust-covering portion, and'releasable fastening means carried by the shoulder straps and said tension strips to secure the opposite end of each tension strip to the adjacent shoulder strap.

2; As an article of manufacture, a bathing garment'comprising a waist having a bustcoiering portion and-.a low-cut open back, a

pair of shoulder straps connected at the front to the bust-covering portion and converging downward, at the back withinthe hack opening and having their lower ends superposed and anchored to the lower edge of the back opening, and releasable fastening means carried by said straps to fasten them together at a medial point thereof at the back and hold them superposed and fiat between said point and their anchorage at the back.

3. As an article of manufacture, a garment comprising a waist having a bust-covering portion and an approximately V-cut low back, a pair of shoulder straps connected at the front to the bust-covering portion and converging downward at the back and having their lower ends superposed and anchored to the waist at the bottom of the V out to form a v pattern within said out in one adjustment of the strap, releasable fastening means carried by said straps to fasten them together in another adjustment at a medial point thereof at the hack and hold them superposed and flat between said point and their anchorage at the back to form a Y pattransverse tension strips at opposite sides of the back opening and each anchored at one end to the waist at an edge margin of the back opening approximately at the bust level, and means to releasably fasten each of said tension strips to the adjacent shoulder strap below said first fastening means when the straps are in said V adjustment and combine with the straps to form still another pattern in the\ cut at the back, said tension strips being foldable to concealed positions beneath the bust-covering portions of the garment when released from the straps.

4. Asan article of manufacture, a garment comprising a waist having a bust-covering portion and an approximately V-cut low back, a pair of shoulder straps connected at the front to the bust-covering portion and converging downward at the back and having their lower ends superposed and anchored to the waistat the bottom of the V out to forma V pattern within said out in one adjustment of the strap, and releasable fastening means carried by said straps to fasten them together in another adjustment at a medial point materially nearer the shoulders than to the bottom of the V out.

5. As an article of manufacture. a bathing garment comprising a waist having-a bustcovering portion and a low cut open back, a pair of shoulder straps connected at the front to the bust-covering portion and converging downward, at the back within the back opening and having their lower ends superposed and anchored to. the lower edge of the back opening, and fastening means carried by said straps releasably holding them in flat superposed relation between their point of anchorage at the backand a point medial of their lengths.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature. 1

ABRAHAM SLOTOROFF.

ternwithin said V out, said fastening point being located materially nearer the shoulders than to the bottom of the V out. a pair of 

